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Bucky

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1. I'm getting bored with all the talk of "untold" and "secret" histories. I do teach all this stuff.

Reply to Lars77 (Original post)

Sat Nov 17, 2012, 10:22 AM

Nov 2012

I teach American and World History in high school and we pretty much cover all the things critics of US history say we "leave out". Sorry, America, but we did teach you this stuff. Yall were just too busy texting your boyfriend in the back of the class or talking about the kegger after the big Homecoming Dance to pay attention.

Now get the hell off my lawn.

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Oliver Stone on the Untold U.S. History from Atomic Age, Vietnam to Obama's Drone War [View all] Lars77 Nov 2012 OP

I'm getting bored with all the talk of "untold" and "secret" histories. I do teach all this stuff. Bucky Nov 2012 #1

yeah heaven05 Nov 2012 #4

Well a teacher can't go around saying "Bushmonkey" or "Darth" Bucky Nov 2012 #5

of course not heaven05 Nov 2012 #6

Well, I was taught that we reluctantly dropped the bomb on Japan to end the fanatical Japanese fasttense Nov 2012 #7

The truth (which never makes it to the "accepted" history books) dotymed Nov 2012 #2

Yeah, that's another thing. Teachers are constantly being told *don't* teach from the textbook. Bucky Nov 2012 #3

Oliver Stone Speaks Truth to Power in 12 November, 2012 CNN Interview MinM Nov 2012 #8

I'm finally watching it On Demand from Showtime. I wonder what our country would've been like if H Pryderi Dec 2012 #9